Manifesto

Hi and welcome to my new blog: The Good, The Bad And The Subjective.

My motivation and aims are laid out in the manifesto below. Enjoy!

The Good, The Bad and The Subjective is a journey into the mind of a wannabe polymath who believes Art and Science are two different but equally essential ways of chasing the ever-receding boundaries of truth.

The Ancient Greeks described two equally important ways of looking at the world; Mythos and Logos. These can be roughly translated to a mythical way of thinking and a logical way of thinking. Mythos is a worldview promoted by artists, poets, musicians and other mythical thinkers who value abstract and subjective thought and who search for answers based on experience and feeling. Logos on the other hand is favoured by scientists who see the world more empirically and view truth as being objective and universal.

The greatest results are achieved in civilisation when these two ways of thinking are bought together in equal measure. For example, logos has allowed us to discover amazing new ways to cure disease and lengthen the human lifespan but it’s only through mythos that we have learnt to value human life enough to bother discovering these medical advances.

Over the centuries, the duality of mythos and logos has been visualised in lots of different ways such as Left Brain vs Right Brain, Spirituality vs Rationality and Art vs Science.

I believe that a lot of the Humanity’s problems both now and throughout history have developed through an imbalance of Mythos and Logos in the culture of a society. In my opinion, a perfect balance of the two should always be sought, however hard this may be in reality.

Therefore, although this blog is ultimately just somewhere to share the ideas that inspire me on my road to enlightenment, I also aim to promote mythical and logical ideas in equal measure in order to give the collective human consciousness a helping hand on the road to perfect balance and harmony.

In my meanderings I expect to cover; art, design, architecture, science, technology, philosophy, history, psychology, sociology, ecology, anthropology and anything else that inspires me.

One thing I want to try and avoid on this blog is negativity as I believe the society of today is in need of as much positive energy as it can get. Partly for this reason, but mainly due to the fact that I have ideas for another blog on these subjects, I also plan to avoid current affairs, politics and political philosophy.